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Materials Recovery Facility

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Ernst Karel

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Recycling, materials recovery facility, MRF, waste, plastics, resources, sustainability, labor, location recording, musique concrète, field recording, sonic ethnography
Recorded with handheld microphones in ORTF stereo at the materials recovery facility (MRF) run by Casella Waste Systems, in the Charlestown area of northern Boston.  The facility receives commingled recyclables from many surrounding municipalities and universities.  Fed through the facility on a network of massive overlapping conveyor belts, the materials are separated for recycling using automated methods including trommels, disc screens, optical sensors, precisely directed blasts of compressed air, eddy currents, magnets, and a large staff of human workers, who manage much of the separation by hand.

Originally composed for the Zeega non-linear platform in the online journal, Sensate, archived at http://sensatejournal.com/2012/04/ernst-karel-materials-recovery-facility .
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2012-02-22 01:10:53
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Materials-Recovery-Facility
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2012

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